Maybe it’s that I’m a new mom or maybe I’ve just become more mindful of taking care of myself but just a few days ago I decided to break my usual holiday promise to myself regarding New Year’s resolutions. That is, to not make any resolutions. I have a tendency to undermine my own intentions [...]
Over the past four weeks in the NICU, it’s been fascinating watching our relationship with this hospital unit change. Soon after the birth of our twin boys (9 weeks early, planned c-section), I was walking briskly down the hall following a parade of respiratory therapists, a neonatal doctor, nurses and isolettes (with boys inside) to the inner sanctum of our local hopital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU.) The education of this place’s strange customs began immediately- stopped from instinctively following my boys, I was kindly given a lesson in “scrubbing up”- cracking open an iodine brush pack, rolling up my sleeves at the sink, and then scrubbing vigorously for 2 minutes to sanitize myself as much as possible.
You Know You Are a Mom of Twins When…
Posted on April 30th, 2010
Snow Day
Posted on December 7th, 2009
A Weekend of Face Plants
Posted on September 6th, 2009
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the NICU
Posted on August 26th, 2009
Get Your Twins Outdoors!
Posted on August 3rd, 2009
Happy 6M Birthday!
Posted on May 29th, 2009
4 Months, Give or Take a Week
Posted on April 13th, 2009
Feeling Like a Mama
Posted on February 8th, 2009
Twin Dreams
Posted on January 20th, 2009
The Cycle Continues: a Letter from Grandpa
Posted on January 18th, 2009
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